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Tim Robbins (born October 16, 1958 Timothy Francis
Robbins) is an United States|American actor,
screenwriter, film director|director, producer,
and small time musician. He is the longtime
companion of actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he
shares strong left-wing political views. Robbins
is 6 feet, 4 inches tall.

Robbins was born in West Covina, California, but
moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a
young age while his father, Gil Robbins, pursued a
career as a member of the folk music group The
Highwaymen. Robbins joined Theater for a New City
at age twelve, and participated in the drama club
at Stuyvesant High School. Robbins spent two years
at State University of New York at Plattsburgh|
Plattsburgh State University, then returned to
California to attend drama school at University of
California, Los Angeles|UCLA.

On graduation in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors'
Gang in Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles, an
experimental theater group, with actor friends
from his college softball team. He also took small
parts in films, with a breakthrough part as
pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh in the 1988 baseball movie
Bull Durham. On the set of that movie he began a
relationship with fellow actor Sarandon that
continues to the present day.

He received critical acclaim for his starring role
as an amoral movie executive in the 1992 film The
Player. His directorial and screenwriting debut
was 1992's Bob Roberts, a mockumentary about a
populism|populist right-wing United States
Senate|senatorial candidate. Robbins then starred
alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically
acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption based on
Stephen King's short story.

Some fans agree that his crowning achievement was
the scene in Fraternity Vacation (1985) where, in
the role of frat animal "Mother," Robbins slapped
a pole in a fit of rage over a stolen car.

Since that time he has written, produced, and
directed several films with strong but subtle
political content, such as the
critically-acclaimed capital punishment saga Dead
Man Walking in 1995, based on the book by Helen
Prejean, which earned him a directorial Academy
Award|Oscar nomination, and 1999's Depression-era
musical Cradle Will Rock. Robbins also continues
to act in mainstream Hollywood thrillers like
Arlington Road (1999) and Antitrust
(movie)|Antitrust (2001), and to act in and direct
Actors' Gang theater productions.

Robbins lives in New York City with Sarandon and
their three children. He is a prominent
spokesperson for anti-globalization, and vocally
opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In 2003 a
15th-anniversary celebration of Bull Durham at the
United States Baseball Hall of Fame|National
Baseball Hall of Fame was cancelled due to
controversy over his and Sarandon's public
anti-war stance.

He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor|Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the Screen
Actors Guild#SAG Awards|SAG Award for his work in
Mystic River (movie)|Mystic River (2003).

Since May 2005 he's been a contributing blogger at
The Huffington Post.

==Selected filmography==

*  Fraternity Vacation (1985)
* Top Gun (1986)
* Five Corners (1988)
* Bull Durham (1988)
* Tapeheads (1988)
* Erik the Viking (1989)
* Jacob's Ladder (movie)|Jacob's Ladder (1990)
* The Player (1992)
* Bob Roberts writer, director (1992)
* The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
* The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
* Dead Man Walking writer, director (1995)
* Cradle Will Rock writer, director (1999)
* Nothing to Lose (1997)
* Mission to Mars (2000)
* High_Fidelity_%28novel%29|High Fidelity (2000)
* Antitrust (movie)|Antitrust (2001)
* Human Nature (film)|Human Nature (2001)
* Code 46 (2003)
* Mystic River (movie)|Mystic River (2003)
* War of the Worlds (2005 movie)|War of the Worlds
(2005)
* The Secret Life of Words (movie) |The Secret
Life of Words (2005)

==External links==
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*http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1206-06.h
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*http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts
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February 20, 2004
*http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/
Interview from Media Matters, June 5, 2005
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